Containerisation Contracts

Containerization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Containerisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Containerisation over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 148 167
Rank change year-on-year +72 +19 +6
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 933 695 879
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.23% 1.62% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 1.89% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 507 651
10th Percentile £400 £418 £463
25th Percentile £461 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £601
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -8.54% +0.23%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £738
90th Percentile £688 £721 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile £26.60 £52.63 £64.19
25th Percentile £48.75 £62.19 £67.13
Median hourly rate £78.70 £70.00 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% -7.28% +39.17%
75th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £87.00
90th Percentile £88.70 - £91.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 £58.75 £78.00
% change year-on-year +34.47% -24.68% +51.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Containerisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,331 36,749 50,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.02% 85.64% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,815 23,629 34,859
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,103 2,511 1,675
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%
75th Percentile £56.88 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Containerisation.

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Containerisation.

Hourly rate trend for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Containerisation over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Containerisation in the UK

Containerisation
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the UK over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +68 758 £530 -3.64% 4,799
London +69 401 £550 -4.35% 649
Work from Home +83 381 £534 -1.75% 3,234
UK excluding London +54 367 £525 -4.55% 4,741
North of England +24 120 £500 -3.85% 1,037
North West +36 83 £500 -4.31% 482
South East +31 65 £540 -13.60% 1,364
South West +57 62 £600 +9.09% 568
Scotland +32 53 £525 +1.69% 183
Midlands +48 48 £500 +11.11% 876
Yorkshire +1 34 £506 -2.64% 438
West Midlands +39 32 £550 +22.22% 471
East of England +37 19 £490 -14.78% 689
East Midlands +21 16 £440 -1.24% 346
Wales +3 8 £570 +10.68% 124
North East +2 3 £620 +18.10% 119
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 82

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 30 (3.22%) Apache
2 28 (3.00%) Confluence
3 27 (2.89%) Apache Spark
4 19 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.18%) nginx
6 9 (0.96%) Camunda
7 6 (0.64%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.54%) JBoss
9 4 (0.43%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.43%) WordPress
10 3 (0.32%) Alfresco
10 3 (0.32%) Drupal
10 3 (0.32%) IBM Domino
10 3 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.32%) WebLogic Portal
10 3 (0.32%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.21%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Notion
1 2 (0.21%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) InVision
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.32%) Shopify
4 2 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.21%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.21%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.11%) Actimize
5 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.11%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 505 (54.13%) AWS
2 318 (34.08%) Azure
3 173 (18.54%) GCP
4 155 (16.61%) Serverless
5 102 (10.93%) GitHub
6 98 (10.50%) Amazon S3
7 92 (9.86%) AWS Lambda
8 91 (9.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 85 (9.11%) Amazon EKS
10 75 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
11 65 (6.97%) Amazon EC2
12 64 (6.86%) GitHub Actions
13 61 (6.54%) OpenShift
14 43 (4.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 39 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
16 31 (3.32%) Azure AKS
17 30 (3.22%) Amazon SQS
18 29 (3.11%) PaaS
19 24 (2.57%) Azure Monitor
20 23 (2.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (6.86%) DNS
2 45 (4.82%) HTTP
3 40 (4.29%) TCP/IP
4 35 (3.75%) Firewall
5 26 (2.79%) DHCP
6 21 (2.25%) VPN
7 20 (2.14%) Network Security
8 11 (1.18%) SAN
8 11 (1.18%) SSL
9 8 (0.86%) Internet
10 7 (0.75%) Wireless
11 6 (0.64%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.64%) VLAN
12 5 (0.54%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.54%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.54%) WAN
13 4 (0.43%) BGP
13 4 (0.43%) iSCSI
13 4 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
13 4 (0.43%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (15.11%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (8.90%) Relational Database
3 82 (8.79%) Amazon RDS
4 66 (7.07%) NoSQL
5 46 (4.93%) MongoDB
6 40 (4.29%) MySQL
7 38 (4.07%) DynamoDB
8 35 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
9 34 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
10 32 (3.43%) SQL Server
11 28 (3.00%) Amazon Aurora
12 25 (2.68%) Big Data
13 20 (2.14%) Data Lake
14 19 (2.04%) Hadoop
15 18 (1.93%) KDB
15 18 (1.93%) Kdb+
16 16 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (1.71%) Redis
17 12 (1.29%) Oracle Database
18 10 (1.07%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 224 (24.01%) Jenkins
2 159 (17.04%) GitLab
3 130 (13.93%) Git
4 69 (7.40%) JIRA
5 66 (7.07%) JUnit
6 54 (5.79%) Mockito
7 48 (5.14%) Gradle
8 36 (3.86%) Liquibase
9 30 (3.22%) SonarQube
10 29 (3.11%) Bitbucket
10 29 (3.11%) Maven
11 18 (1.93%) Cucumber
12 17 (1.82%) Selenium
13 15 (1.61%) CircleCI
13 15 (1.61%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.18%) Artifactory
14 11 (1.18%) Cypress.io
14 11 (1.18%) JMeter
15 9 (0.96%) Bitbucket Server
15 9 (0.96%) TeamCity
General
1 251 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 153 (16.40%) Public Sector
3 144 (15.43%) Finance
4 92 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (6.54%) Banking
6 38 (4.07%) Telecoms
7 28 (3.00%) Marketing
8 27 (2.89%) Manufacturing
9 25 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (2.47%) Electronics
11 20 (2.14%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.50%) Legal
13 11 (1.18%) Retail
14 10 (1.07%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.86%) Law
15 8 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.75%) Military
16 7 (0.75%) Publishing
17 6 (0.64%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 256 (27.44%) Developer
2 161 (17.26%) Senior
3 141 (15.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 117 (12.54%) Architect
5 73 (7.82%) Java Developer
6 66 (7.07%) Lead
7 64 (6.86%) Software Engineer
8 60 (6.43%) Senior Developer
9 47 (5.04%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (5.04%) Data Engineer
10 37 (3.97%) Full-Stack Developer
11 36 (3.86%) AWS Architect
11 36 (3.86%) Python Developer
12 34 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
13 31 (3.32%) .NET Developer
13 31 (3.32%) Senior DevOps
14 29 (3.11%) Lead Developer
14 29 (3.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 28 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
15 28 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (12.86%) Kafka
2 119 (12.75%) Spring
3 100 (10.72%) RESTful
4 99 (10.61%) React
5 96 (10.29%) Spring Boot
6 79 (8.47%) REST
7 77 (8.25%) .NET
8 71 (7.61%) Node.js
9 59 (6.32%) OpenAPI
9 59 (6.32%) Swagger
10 52 (5.57%) Elastic Stack
11 46 (4.93%) AngularJS
12 43 (4.61%) OAuth
13 36 (3.86%) HTML
14 29 (3.11%) Web Services
15 27 (2.89%) ARM Templates
15 27 (2.89%) CSS
16 22 (2.36%) .NET Core
16 22 (2.36%) GraphQL
16 22 (2.36%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 83 (8.90%) Cloud Native
2 43 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
4 30 (3.22%) Public Cloud
5 29 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 21 (2.25%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.61%) Algorithms
8 15 (1.61%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.29%) PKI
10 8 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (0.86%) Management Information System
10 8 (0.86%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.75%) Clustering
11 7 (0.75%) Private Cloud
12 6 (0.64%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.64%) Hedge funds
12 6 (0.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 214 (22.94%) Linux
2 61 (6.54%) Windows
3 49 (5.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (2.57%) Unix
5 23 (2.47%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.18%) VMS
7 10 (1.07%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.86%) Rocky
9 7 (0.75%) Android
9 7 (0.75%) CentOS
10 4 (0.43%) SUSE
10 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.32%) AIX
11 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (57.66%) CI/CD
2 442 (47.37%) DevOps
3 305 (32.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 295 (31.62%) Agile
5 262 (28.08%) Microservices
6 219 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
7 148 (15.86%) Software Engineering
8 135 (14.47%) Test Automation
9 109 (11.68%) Continuous Integration
10 98 (10.50%) Migration
10 98 (10.50%) TDD
11 95 (10.18%) High Availability
12 91 (9.75%) Configuration Management
13 89 (9.54%) Full-Stack Development
14 80 (8.57%) Analytics
14 80 (8.57%) Event-Driven
15 72 (7.72%) Mentoring
16 67 (7.18%) Data Pipeline
17 66 (7.07%) Observability
18 65 (6.97%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 427 (45.77%) Python
2 246 (26.37%) Java
3 173 (18.54%) SQL
4 153 (16.40%) Bash
5 126 (13.50%) JavaScript
6 96 (10.29%) TypeScript
7 87 (9.32%) PowerShell
8 79 (8.47%) C#
9 41 (4.39%) Shell Script
10 36 (3.86%) Go
11 35 (3.75%) C++
12 19 (2.04%) Bicep
13 16 (1.71%) Perl
14 14 (1.50%) PL/SQL
14 14 (1.50%) Scala
15 12 (1.29%) Groovy
15 12 (1.29%) PHP
15 12 (1.29%) Ruby
16 10 (1.07%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.86%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 320 (34.30%) Security Cleared
2 256 (27.44%) SC Cleared
3 65 (6.97%) AWS Certification
4 51 (5.47%) Degree
5 50 (5.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 50 (5.36%) DV Cleared
6 29 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.68%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.07%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.43%) OCP
14 4 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.43%) VCAP
15 3 (0.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.79%) QA
2 35 (3.75%) Accessibility
3 28 (3.00%) GDPR
4 18 (1.93%) PCI DSS
5 17 (1.82%) Data Quality
6 15 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.39%) NCSC
8 12 (1.29%) HIPAA
9 10 (1.07%) NIST
10 6 (0.64%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.32%) SLA
12 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.11%) HL7
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.11%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 621 (66.56%) Docker
2 38 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (2.47%) Active Directory
4 20 (2.14%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.07%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 10 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.75%) Postfix
6 7 (0.75%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.32%) LXC
7 3 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.32%) Platform Symphony
7 3 (0.32%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Ceph
8 1 (0.11%) GPFS
8 1 (0.11%) HDFS
8 1 (0.11%) Lustre
8 1 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.11%) Samba
8 1 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 634 (67.95%) Kubernetes
2 329 (35.26%) Terraform
3 224 (24.01%) Ansible
4 111 (11.90%) Grafana
5 93 (9.97%) Prometheus
6 73 (7.82%) Puppet
7 35 (3.75%) Progress Chef
8 22 (2.36%) Podman
9 19 (2.04%) Argo
10 15 (1.61%) Istio
11 14 (1.50%) Kibana
11 14 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.64%) Consul
13 6 (0.64%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.64%) Packer
14 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.54%) Nagios
14 5 (0.54%) Perfmon
14 5 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 71 (7.61%) Google
2 60 (6.43%) Red Hat
3 59 (6.32%) Microsoft
4 52 (5.57%) VMware
5 44 (4.72%) Oracle
6 37 (3.97%) SAP
7 34 (3.64%) Splunk
8 20 (2.14%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.82%) Databricks
10 16 (1.71%) IBM
11 15 (1.61%) Atlassian
12 13 (1.39%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.07%) New Relic
14 9 (0.96%) Cisco
15 8 (0.86%) TIBCO
16 7 (0.75%) Jaspersoft
17 6 (0.64%) Commvault
17 6 (0.64%) NetApp
18 5 (0.54%) MuleSoft
18 5 (0.54%) Qualys